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Most consonants are also allowed in the coda of a syllable, only the pre-nasalized plosives and the glottal fricative are not. Please note that the coda is entirely optional. | Most consonants are also allowed in the coda of a syllable, only the pre-nasalized plosives and the glottal fricative are not. Please note that the coda is entirely optional. | ||
===Stress=== | |||
Linguistic stress is defined as emphasis on a particular syllable (or word). This can be realized in several ways, but in Denobulan, a stressed syllable is emphasized by increase in loudness and pitch. For beginning learners, this may sound like all Denobulans are constantly asking questions by raising pitch for stressed syllables. On which syllable the stress of a word falls is determined by the following: | |||
* If a word has only one syllable, that syllable is stressed. | |||
* If a word has more than one syllable, one looks at the last two syllables of a word. | |||
** If one of those syllables has a long vowel, it is stressed. | |||
** If two of those syllables have a long vowel, the last is stressed. | |||
** If none of those syllables have a long vowel, the last is stressed. Next to that, the stressed vowel is also lengthened, except for [ɔ̝] which doesn't have a long form. | |||
[[Category:Languages]] | [[Category:Languages]] | ||